I do my job like I breathe — so if I can’t breathe I’m in trouble.
KARL LAGERFELDBuy only because something excites you, not just for the simple act of shopping.
More Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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You come first, the clothes later. Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Be creative.
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In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and clothes and even handbags, the discussion of fur is childish.
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When I was 14, I wanted to smoke because my mother smoked like mad. I wanted to smoke to look grown-up. But my mother said: ‘You shouldn’t smoke. Your hands are not that beautiful and that shows when you smoke.
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I only know how to play one role: me.
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I’m not a social person. Not that I’m not at ease. I’m pretty good, but it bores me. Not the people, but the whole thing. What for? It’s not very productive. I only want to do what I have to do: fashion, photography, books. And that’s all.
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Vanity is the healthiest thing in life.
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The thing at the moment is Adele. She is a little too fat, but she has a beautiful face and a divine voice.
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The most important piece in the house is the garbage can.
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I don’t like standard beauty – there is no beauty without strangeness.
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Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality.
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I’m all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.
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Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Improvise. Become more creative. Not because you have to, but because you want to. Evolution is the secret for the next step.
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I’m not a marketing person. I don’t ask myself questions. I go by instinct.
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Fashion and music are the same, because music express its period too.
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I’m never content with what I do. I live in a sort of permanent dissatisfaction. I think that’s the secret to doing things well.
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